Saturday, March 24, 2012

Except for that one SIL. The one who's gonna get punched in the face one of these days. . .

I kidd. Or do I?

Anywho, I got a call from my SIL, and she was calling in reinforcements, yo. See, she had a ginormous, surprise party she was planning, and she wanted a couple things done in her house.

So I headed on over. Massive amounts of lumber in hands, nailgun in the other, and air compressor in the other. (how many hands is that??)

See, my bro and sis in law recently changed out the carpet in their dining room for this beautiful, bEE-utiful cherry wood, and got a fabulous new dining table.

But she wanted something . . . more. Just a little molding in there. And so, we got to work. Obviously. Since I snapped the pic after I had already dumped all my handseses of lumber/tools down on her floor.

I'm tellin' you,
we were like a super hero duo. Like, Wonder Woman and Super Girl tag team. Undies over the pants 'n all. We busted out this project in, like, under 3 hours. We were putting trim down before the compressor was even finished filling up, we were that fast.

It was a beautiful thing.

Trimmed out the window in there, and we used my usual 1/4 inch plywood "wainscoting" (I use the term loosely, ahem) treatment, and this project cost us a whopping $22. Price of the plywood, yo.

Wanna see it all done? 'Cause I stood back, and went. . . Whoa.

Oh, wait. WAIT. Keep yer pants on. I have to show you the birthday cake she made for this aforementioned party.

Mandi! I can't believe you whipped that out in three hours!! It looks fantastic and I've got to try your plywood trick next time......ya can't beat that price tag!! How lucky is your sister in law to have you!!

I'm gonna have to punch BOTH you and your SIL! Never punched anyone in my life but I am winding up now I tell you! How much talent can there be in one family!? In all seriousness, what a gorgeous result. You should both be so proud! The cake is worthy of a magazine cover and the wood work came out wonderful. I hope the party was a hit!My best.

You are the Molding Queen. Seriously. I really want to frame out all my windows but I have never done a project like that. And looking at your SIL's window, her's is recessed just like mine. Could you maybe, pretty please, do a tutorial on how to add trim to windows?? It would be "amazeballs". Thank you a million!